The Palace of discovery – and indeed the Palace: the Museum is located in the West wing of the Grand Palais, between the river Seine and the Champs-elysées. A magnificent building in one of the most prestigious places of Paris to the children.

The Grand Palais was built for the world exhibition in 1900 by three project architects: Henri Deglane (part facing the prospect of Churchill), albert Lowe (middle part) and albert-félix-Theophile Volume (Roosevelt Avenue). It is in this last part in 1937 on the initiative of Nobel laureate physicist Jean Perrin to the next world's fair was organized a temporary exhibition on the achievements of science. It was such a success that it was decided to create a permanent Museum.

Jean Perrin conceived the exhibition as a means "to show the importance of science and its crucial role in the development of civilization." This objective was fully achieved: the Museum for decades, has always attracted children and adults. It is believed that about 50% of the scientific achievements of France in the second half of the XX century as a result of the scientists in childhood visited the Palace of discovery.

Today the Palace is 25,000 square meters thematic exhibitions devoted to physics, mathematics, astronomy, Geology, chemistry and biology. Visitors participate in numerous interactive and very exciting experiments. Here are allowed to touch exhibits, to press any buttons. The guided tour of the Museum staff, similar to a cheerful eccentric scientists.

In the planetarium of the Palace, you can observe any celestial phenomena in the Solar system and beyond, to measure the distances to planets and stars. At the presentation of the Museum come real scientists who tell the students about their research – they can ask any questions, and they are willing to answer! Lectures on electrostatics voltage 350 thousand volts makes the hair of volunteers to stand on end. At the discussion on superconductivity can be observed levitation of objects. All experiments and their results in the Museum is real.

Every day here is up to sixty scientific presentations and workshops for students – of course, in French. But even just to see what is happening is extremely interesting.